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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Can’t have a union at amazon because Jeff Bezos needs enough money to do this
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 27/05/2026
This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We are spending an estimated $1B per day on the war on Iran. Now Trump and Co want an extra $200B from Congress to fund the war. But healthcare? Cut. Food stamps? Cut. Education? Cut. Cancer research? Cut. Environmental protections? Cut. And of course, taxes on the rich? Cut. It's obscene.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
CAMPAIGN UPDATE: 1 DAY LEFT!!! 💥 Tomorrow is Election Day!! 💥 Endorsed by Rep. Ilhan Omar!! 💥 Knock doors and phone bank for us at katforillinois.com/events!! 💥 Make your voting plan at katforillinois.com/vote!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
usatoday.com
FCC chair threatens broadcasters over Iran war coverage
FCC Chair Brendan Carr said news broadcasters coverage of Iran war could impact their license renewal.
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Nick Wilson @nickbwilson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Glock pistol used in deadly shooting at Old Dominion University was illegally sold to shooter, a convicted felon under probation, by a man federal ATF agents knew was selling guns illegally. He previously received a "warning letter" & had to write an apology. It's time to enforce our gun laws
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
In Defense of Effeminate Boys
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.

By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
One swift blow from above will sever your home from the panopticon's icy grasp. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/remove-you...
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Remove Your Ring Camera With a Claw Hammer
Home and life improvement.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
These lil AI commercials reek of desperation.
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Worth noting that this response actually concedes that what Pritzker said is true.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2026
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
In America in 2026, journalists are the government's enemy. Let's just get comfortable with that and stop being weird. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-press-...
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The Press Is the Government's Enemy and That Is Good
It's hard to be objective in jail.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
In a blistering ruling, a Bush-appointed conservative federal judge said that ICE "has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence." Congress must not give one more cent to this rogue agency.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2026
very fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support. 46% support 43% oppose 80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE. Independents are +8 on the question.
New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support.

46% support
43% oppose

80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE.
Independents are +8 on the question.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It is very funny watching right wingers go straight into “anything that hurts my feelings is violence” without even doing any throat clearing about how this is different from all the stuff they just spent years making fun of. At least make up an excuse guys
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Yesterday we learned that a racist Trump supporter assaulted a nonwhite Democratic congressman. And it’s not even a big story. Meanwhile, Republicans drone on about ‘left-wing political violence’.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
New YouGov poll: Abolish ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 46% support 41% oppose Independents are +12 on abolishing ICE 19% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE as well
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
7 Democrats — with the blessing of Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic leadership — just voted with Republicans to give these agents even more money
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Hakeem Jeffries comes out against the bill funding ICE and DHS. This seems like quite a big deal.
axios.com
Scoop: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries opposes bill funding DHS and ICE
Democrats are lining up against the bill.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/01/2026
basically; “the summary execution of americans on the streets is a land of contrast” this guy is a true airhead. just nothing between those ears.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/01/2026
Venezuela has nothing to do w/ OxyContin, the drug that Andrew Witkoff reportedly overdosed on and died from in 2011. OxyContin was created, marketed, and aggressively pushed by Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family. In the United States, over 500,000 people have died from opioid overdoses...
Venezuela has nothing to do with OxyContin, the drug that Andrew Witkoff reportedly overdosed on and died from in 2011.

OxyContin was created, marketed, and aggressively pushed by Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family. In the United States, over 500,000 people have died from opioid overdoses since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Venezuela does not produce OxyContin, does not control its supply chain, and played no role in the Sackler-driven opioid epidemic.

The crisis was fueled by Purdue’s false claims about addiction risk and mass over-prescription by U.S. doctors. No member of the Sackler family faced criminal charges or prison time. In exchange for multibillion-dollar civil settlements, they secured broad legal immunity from future opioid lawsuits. No Sackler even admitted wrongdoing.

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Alex Witkoff
@Alex_Witkoff
Yesterday my family would have been celebrating my brother Andrew’s 37th birthday. Instead, he’s gone, overtaken by a drug overdose

Drug overdoses are a national catastrophe and now the #1 killer of Americans ages 18–45

It’s surreal that on Andrew’s birthday, President Trump successfully captured Nicolás Maduro, an illegitimate narco-terrorist dictator with an active U.S. arrest warrant since the Biden administration. His drug networks have helped poison an entire generation of Americans

Anyone who defends Maduro is turning their back on tens of millions of American families afflicted by this drug overdose crisis every single day
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
He's literally set himself up as Ruler of Venezuela. George Bush at least got a congressional resolution and an attempt at a UN resolution before invading and occupying Iraq. Trump didn't even consult with the Gang of 8 in Congress and now declares himself the ruler. Sheesh.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.”

What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
“Babies Are Freezing to Death in Gaza. Israeli Policy and the World’s Inaction Are to Blame”
zeteo.com
Babies Are Freezing to Death in Gaza. Israeli Policy and the World’s Inaction Are to Blame
The world must stop treating the word “ceasefire” as a guarantee of safety when Gaza’s residents remain under fire, under siege, and under conditions that guarantee more suffering and heartbreak.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The pro-Nick Fuentes Administration destroying people and institutions on the basis of “fighting antisemitism” has me losing my damn mind. The Nazi-sympathizers pretending to be protectors of American Jews has to be one of the most profound mindfucks in an era rife with them.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Primaries for senators
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
As you see Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Stephen Miller all endorse Andrew Cuomo, just remember that Chuck Schumer — leader of the Democratic party — never ended up endorsing Cuomo's opponent (the Democratic nominee)
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.
washingtonpost.com
Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests
Researchers attempt to calculate the number of deaths attributable to the war on terrorism, across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Cuomo’s closing pitch is just gutter racism against his opponent bsky.app/profile/bfis...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"I hope your beeper doesn't go off." A year ago today, a racist tried to make a 'joke' about me being killed by Israel. It was the 1st time I've ever walked off of live TV. That night CNN said they'd ban the racist from their air. But in the year since, I myself haven't been invited back on CNN.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/10/2025
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Update: After Bari Weiss was made Editor-in-Chief, CBS News is now uplifting stories from Weiss’s The Free Press.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2025
Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Leave the military or accept that you will be on the wrong side of history. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/leave-the-...
hamiltonnolan.com
Leave the Military Now
What does courage demand?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2025
White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.
Abigail Jackson saying: Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences. 

Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high

And posting a graph from Axios that shows WAY WAY WAY more right wing terrorism, and showing a very slight increase in left wing terrorism this year that would still have it lower than basically every other year of right wing terrorism.
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